References

• Guide for Debian Maintainers
  • https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/ch04.en.html
  • edit Makefile, orgarnize indent with tab
  • edit debian/source/include-binaries
• Debian New Maintainers' Guide (Old version)
  • https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html
• {pre,post}{inst,rm}
  • https://ivanitlearning.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/writing-your-own-deb-package/

Debugging preinst postinst scripts and Rebuild by dpkg-deb

• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/138188/easily-unpack-deb-edit-postinst-and-repack-deb

mkdir tmp
dpkg-deb -R original.deb tmp
# edit DEBIAN/postinst
dpkg-deb -b tmp fixed.deb

Version and Name Rule

• https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/first.en.html#namever
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/249043/decoding-a-debian-package-name-version-release

$ dpkg --compare-versions '1.0-0~201~ubuntu14.04.1' lt '1.0+r201~daily~ubuntu14.04.1' && echo less than
less than

with debmake

debian/debhello/usr/bin/hello
src/hello

tar czvf debhello-0.0.tar.gz ./debhello-0.0

with dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc // -b binary only

• https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html#quickrebuild

fakeroot debian/rules binary
or
fakeroot debian/rules build